Egypt’s leader has gambled that he can ride out the protests and hold on. It’s a pretty good gamble. Imagine yourself as Hosni Mubarak, master of Egypt for nearly 30 years. You’re old, unwell, detested and addicted to power. You could have orchestrated a graceful exit by promising to preside over free and fair presidential [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Being Hosni Mubarak
Posted in Editorials and opinion, Politics on January 31, 2011 | Comments Off
It Takes Years
Posted in Other on January 30, 2011 | Comments Off
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An Unserious Speech Misses the Mark
Posted in Editorials and opinion, Politics on January 28, 2011 | Comments Off
The audience found it tiresome. Here’s why it was irksome as well. It is a strange and confounding thing about this White House that the moment you finally think they have their act together—the moment they get in the groove and start to demonstrate that they do have some understanding of our country—they take the [...]
A Presidency to Nowhere
Posted in Editorials and opinion, Politics on January 26, 2011 | Comments Off
High-speed rail and solar shingles are not the answer to America’s “Sputnik moment.” No president before Barack Obama has been so right and so wrong. When in his State of the Union speech Mr. Obama said, “This is our generation’s Sputnik moment,” citing the emergence of global competition from the likes of China and India, [...]
Pepper and Salt
Posted in Pepper and salt on January 25, 2011 | Comments Off
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Peaked performance
Posted in Other on January 24, 2011 | Comments Off
The case that human athletes have reached their limits Last summer, David Oliver tried to become one of the fastest men in the world. The American Olympic hurdler had run a time of 12.89 seconds in the 110 meters at a meet in Paris in July. The time was two-100ths of a second off the [...]
Introduction by the Author
Posted in Other on January 19, 2011 | Comments Off
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Vive la différence
Posted in Other on January 19, 2011 | Comments Off
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